Optimal error estimate of upwind scheme on Shishkin-type meshes for singularly perturbed parabolic problems with discontinuous convection coefficients (Q634115)

A class of singularly perturbed parabolic convection-diffusion problems with discontinuous convection coefficient is considered. Due to the discontinuity of this coefficient the solution possesses interior layers. The analysis of an implicit upwind finite difference scheme on both piecewise-uniform Shishkin mesh and the Bakhalov-Shishkin mesh, for the considered problem, is performed. The authors derive suitable conditions for the appropriate mesh-generating functions which are sufficient for the convergence of the method, uniformly with respect to the perturbation parameter. It is proved from a theoretical and from a numerical point of view as well that the scheme converges uniformly in the discrete supremum norm with an optimal error bound.